Most Nebraska industry existed to turn what the plains produced into something that could be shipped east. Cattle came to the South Omaha stockyards and packinghouses, sugar beets from the North Platte valley went to factories in the Panhandle, and grain went to the mills and cereal plants, while the Union Pacific hauled all of it and public power districts (Nebraska is the only state served entirely by public power) kept the plants running. The boilers, kilns, steam lines, and generating stations behind every step were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos. Most of the state's entries fall in a handful of places:
- Omaha — Union Pacific's headquarters and shops, the Swift and Wilson packing plants, and Western Electric's Omaha Works;
- south of Omaha — Allied Chemical's nitrogen plant at La Platte, Offutt Air Force Base at Bellevue, and the Ash Grove cement plant at Louisville;
- the railroads — Union Pacific's Bailey Yard at North Platte and the Burlington's Havelock shops at Lincoln;
- the Panhandle — Great Western Sugar at Bayard and Consumers Public Power's Scottsbluff plant;
- the public power stations — Sheldon Station at Hallam, Cooper Nuclear Station at Brownville, and Gerald Gentleman Station at Sutherland; and
- Lincoln and the grain towns — Goodyear's Lincoln plant and Crete Mills.
When these companies went bankrupt, the trusts set up to pay their asbestos claims each published a list of locations where its products were proven to be present. For Nebraska, those lists hold 705 entries across 89 communities, from 23 asbestos trusts. One plant can appear many times, under different names or on different trusts' lists. Several of our clients worked at Nebraska job sites.
Every asbestos trust claim has to prove two things: that a company's asbestos-containing product was present at a job site, and that the worker handled that product, or worked close enough to it, to breathe its dust. If you or your loved one worked at a site on those lists during the applicable years, the first half is already established, because the trust has acknowledged its products were there.
We help workers who are alive and recently diagnosed, adult children and spouses researching on behalf of someone who is sick, and families of workers who have already passed away from mesothelioma, lung cancer, or asbestosis. If you are a worker who has just been diagnosed, calling early keeps more options open for your family. There is still a claim to be made for families of workers who have already passed; we handle wrongful death cases routinely.
You don't need the product names or old records. No fee unless we recover compensation for your family.
Nebraska filing deadlines and trust eligibility, in brief
Nebraska gives a diagnosed worker four years to file a personal-injury claim. Exactly when the clock starts varies, so to be safe, count from the date of diagnosis. If an earlier X-ray, CT scan or screening showed asbestos-related scarring, a Nebraska court may count the four years from that earlier finding, so call us right away. A separate deadline applies once a worker has passed away. If your loved one is alive and diagnosed, calling early keeps more options open.
Nebraska deadlines, the wrongful-death rule, and how they apply to your family
Most workers exposed before 1983 can also file against the Johns-Manville Settlement Trust independently of anything documented at a specific site. How trust eligibility works.
We help families of workers who have already passed away. Wrongful death and survival claims are routine in our Nebraska practice.
The sites profiled below show confirmed asbestos products based on the asbestos trusts established for companies that did business there. Those trusts exist because Clarence Borel, a Gulf Coast insulator, chose to sue in 1969 — not for himself, but because he realized his coworkers would die the same way he was dying. His decision created the legal framework that produced the trust system you're about to scan.
Today the choice is yours. You can file trust claims based on the documented exposure at your loved one's worksite — paper claims, no courtroom. Or you can follow Clarence Borel and also sue the manufacturers and premises owners directly, which allows us to build a full exposure profile for every site your loved one worked at and recover from defendants the trust system doesn't reach. Read his story.
Asbestos trust coverage across Nebraska
The Johns-Manville Settlement Trust is open to most workers exposed before 1983, regardless of which specific worksite the exposure occurred at. Johns-Manville supplied so much asbestos and so many asbestos products across so many American industries that the trust does not require site-specific documentation. For mesothelioma claims, even one day of asbestos exposure before December 31, 1982 (at work or through a family member's work clothes brought into the home) can qualify a worker for Johns-Manville Settlement Trust compensation.
For lung cancer, asbestosis, and other non-mesothelioma asbestos diseases, the threshold is 60 months of total asbestos exposure with at least 6 months occurring before December 31, 1982. The one-day-of-exposure threshold for mesothelioma reflects how the disease actually develops (even brief exposure can cause it) and most major asbestos trusts apply similarly low-threshold eligibility for mesothelioma claims.
Because Johns-Manville keeps no site list of its own, every worksite on another trust's list also qualifies for Johns-Manville. Twenty-two other trusts list Nebraska worksites. The number of Nebraska entries on each trust's list:
- Johns-Manville: no list of its own; every site on the other trusts' lists qualifies
- Babcock & Wilcox: 152 entries (industrial and utility boilers)
- A.P. Green: 147 entries (refractory brick, castables and cements)
- Owens Corning: 123 entries (Kaylo and high-temperature pipe and block insulation)
- W.R. Grace: 103 entries (Monokote spray fireproofing and Zonolite)
- Eagle-Picher: 34 entries (insulating cements and pipe covering)
- Fibreboard: 31 entries (Pabco pipe and block insulation)
- Combustion Engineering: 23 entries (boilers and refractory)
- U.S. Gypsum: 22 entries (joint compound, plaster and acoustical products)
- Owens-Illinois: 18 entries (Kaylo pipe and block insulation)
- DII Industries (Halliburton): 12 entries (pumps, compressors and oilfield equipment)
- Plibrico: 11 entries (refractory plastics and castables)
- Flintkote: 6 entries (roofing, flooring and building products)
- Pittsburgh Corning: 4 entries (Unibestos pipe insulation)
- Turner & Newall: 3 entries (Limpet sprayed asbestos and asbestos textiles)
- ABB Lummus: 2 entries (refinery and petrochemical engineering)
- ACandS: 2 entries (insulation contracting)
- Armstrong World Industries: 2 entries (insulation contracting and floor products)
- Burns & Roe: 2 entries (power-plant engineering and construction)
- DII Industries (Harbison-Walker): 2 entries (refractory brick and castables)
- GAF: 2 entries (roofing and building products)
- Kaiser Aluminum: 2 entries (refractory and insulating products)
- Raytech: 2 entries (friction products)
Trust coverage at this depth means most Nebraska workers with significant industrial exposure histories will trigger filings against multiple trusts simultaneously — typically Johns-Manville plus the site-specific trusts documented at their worksites.
Nebraska cities and their industries
Open a city to see the worksites there that the asbestos trusts recognize, grouped by industry, with why each industry used asbestos.
OmahaOmaha holds more of Nebraska's entries than any other city: Union Pacific's headquarters and shops, the South Omaha packinghouses, the Omaha Public Power District's stations, and Western Electric's telephone-equipment works.
Food plants, breweries, and sugar mills. Sugar mills, breweries, corn and flour mills, and packing houses ran on steam: boilers, cookers, evaporators, and dryers, with miles of insulated pipe, all built with asbestos insulation, gaskets, and packing.
- Kellogg Company
- Swift & Company packing plant
- Wilson & Company packing plant
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- OPPD Jones Street Station
- OPPD North Omaha Station
- Omaha Public Power District (Nebraska Power Company)
Paper mills and manufacturing plants. Paper mills, glass plants, lumber mills, and factories ran their own boilers and steam systems, insulated with asbestos pipe covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere.
- Quaker Oats Company
- Western Electric Omaha Works
Railroads. Steam locomotives were insulated with asbestos, and railroad shops relined boilers and replaced brake shoes and gaskets on equipment that carried asbestos for decades after diesels arrived.
- Union Pacific Railroad (Omaha headquarters and shops)
BellevueBellevue, just south of Omaha, is home to Offutt Air Force Base, for decades the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, and the Kramer power station.
Military installations. Military bases ran boiler plants, steam distribution systems, and aircraft and vehicle maintenance shops, and built and renovated for decades with asbestos-containing materials.
- Offutt Air Force Base
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- NPPD Kramer Station
FremontFremont's entries include the city's own power plant, the L.D. Wright Station, and the Midland College campus.
Public and commercial buildings. Office towers, hospitals, schools, hotels, and government buildings were built with asbestos fireproofing, insulation, plaster, and floor tile, exposing the trades who built and renovated them and the maintenance crews who kept their boilers and steam lines running.
- Midland College
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- Fremont Department of Utilities (L.D. Wright Station)
HastingsHastings paired the city's power station with a Farmland Industries fertilizer plant; the World War II Naval Ammunition Depot stood just east of town.
Chemical plants. Chemical plants combined high heat with corrosive service: furnaces and reactors lined with asbestos refractory, steam lines wrapped in asbestos insulation, and acid-resistant asbestos gaskets and packing at every flange.
- Farmland Industries fertilizer plant (Consumers Cooperative)
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- City of Hastings utilities (North Denver Station)
ScottsbluffScottsbluff, the largest town in the Panhandle, had Consumers Public Power's generating plant alongside a Great Western Sugar factory and the valley's packing plants.
Refineries and petrochemical plants. Refineries ran on heat: crude heaters, cat crackers, boilers, and miles of steam and process piping, all insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products into the late 1970s. Insulators, pipefitters, boilermakers, and the contract crews who worked turnarounds carried the heaviest exposure.
- CRA Inc.
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- Scottsbluff Power Plant (Consumers Public Power / NPPD)
Other Nebraska communitiesOne worksite each in 14 more communities.
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- Cooper Nuclear Station (NPPD) — Brownville
- David City municipal power plant — David City
- Fort Calhoun Station (OPPD) — Fort Calhoun
- Gerald Gentleman Station (NPPD) — Sutherland
- Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America — Station 106 — Beatrice
- Sheldon Station (Consumers Public Power / NPPD) — Hallam
Paper mills and manufacturing plants. Paper mills, glass plants, lumber mills, and factories ran their own boilers and steam systems, insulated with asbestos pipe covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere.
- Ash Grove Lime & Portland Cement Company — Louisville
- Crete Mills — Crete
Railroads. Steam locomotives were insulated with asbestos, and railroad shops relined boilers and replaced brake shoes and gaskets on equipment that carried asbestos for decades after diesels arrived.
- Burlington Railroad Havelock shops — Havelock
- Union Pacific Railroad (Bailey Yard) — North Platte
Chemical plants. Chemical plants combined high heat with corrosive service: furnaces and reactors lined with asbestos refractory, steam lines wrapped in asbestos insulation, and acid-resistant asbestos gaskets and packing at every flange.
- Allied Chemical nitrogen plant — La Platte
Food plants, breweries, and sugar mills. Sugar mills, breweries, corn and flour mills, and packing houses ran on steam: boilers, cookers, evaporators, and dryers, with miles of insulated pipe, all built with asbestos insulation, gaskets, and packing.
- Great Western Sugar Company — Bayard
Military installations. Military bases ran boiler plants, steam distribution systems, and aircraft and vehicle maintenance shops, and built and renovated for decades with asbestos-containing materials.
- Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant — Grand Island
Tire and synthetic-rubber plants. Synthetic-rubber and tire plants ran boilers, steam lines, and steam-heated presses and curing equipment insulated and sealed with asbestos.
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant — Lincoln
Mesothelioma settlement values at Nebraska's most-documented worksites
These worksites appear on the approved-site lists of at least three trusts besides Johns-Manville. Trust counts are minimums: a trust may list a site under a name we haven't yet matched to it. The years are the exposure window the trusts' lists recognize at each site; most lists end at 1982.
Open a worksite to see each trust that lists it, with the mesothelioma values the trust publishes and its current payment percentage. "Trust values together" adds up those trusts' values at their payment percentages: the low figure uses each trust's scheduled value, the high figure each trust's published maximum, which Individual Review can reach. Most mesothelioma claims are paid above the scheduled value. But each trust sets its own eligibility rules — the years, the work, and the length of exposure it requires — so few people qualify for every trust on a list, some trusts publish no fixed schedule, and these figures are not a prediction of any recovery. All trust values and payment percentages.
Union Pacific Railroad (Omaha headquarters and shops)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Raytech | Not published | — | — |
| U.S. Gypsum | $155,000 – $450,000 | 10% | $15,500 – $45,000 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Allied Chemical nitrogen plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Union Pacific Railroad (Bailey Yard)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Raytech | Not published | — | — |
| U.S. Gypsum | $155,000 – $450,000 | 10% | $15,500 – $45,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Western Electric Omaha Works
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Great Western Sugar Company
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
NPPD Kramer Station
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
OPPD Jones Street Station
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Omaha Public Power District (Nebraska Power Company)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Swift & Company packing plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Flintkote | $184,000 – $450,000 | 15% | $27,600 – $67,500 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Scottsbluff Power Plant (Consumers Public Power / NPPD)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACandS | $150,000 – $550,000 | 2.89% | $4,335 – $15,895 |
| Armstrong World Industries | $110,000 – $400,000 | 7.8% | $8,580 – $31,200 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America — Station 106
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Crete Mills
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
David City municipal power plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Plibrico | $350,000 – $750,000 | 0.94% | $3,290 – $7,050 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Fremont Department of Utilities (L.D. Wright Station)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Burns & Roe | Not published | — | — |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Midland College
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACandS | $150,000 – $550,000 | 2.89% | $4,335 – $15,895 |
| Armstrong World Industries | $110,000 – $400,000 | 7.8% | $8,580 – $31,200 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Sheldon Station (Consumers Public Power / NPPD)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
City of Hastings utilities (North Denver Station)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABB Lummus | $1,000 – $400,000 | 9.5% | $95 – $38,000 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Farmland Industries fertilizer plant (Consumers Cooperative)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Burlington Railroad Havelock shops
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Plibrico | $350,000 – $750,000 | 0.94% | $3,290 – $7,050 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Ash Grove Lime & Portland Cement Company
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| DII Industries (Harbison-Walker) | $144,897.50 – $610,000 | 60% | $86,938.50 – $366,000 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Kellogg Company
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
OPPD North Omaha Station
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Quaker Oats Company
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Wilson & Company packing plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
CRA Inc.
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
A closer look at major Nebraska worksites
The worksites below are recognized by the most asbestos trusts in Nebraska — five or more, counting Johns-Manville. Each profile draws on the trust signatures present at the site to identify the products workers handled, the trades most heavily exposed, and the asbestos types they likely encountered. Your specific worksite may be documented even if it doesn't appear here — call us.
Union Pacific Railroad (Omaha headquarters and shops) — Omaha
Union Pacific built west from Omaha in the 1860s as the eastern half of the first transcontinental railroad, and the city has long been its headquarters. Its Omaha shops serviced and repaired locomotives and cars for generations. The trusts list the railroad in Omaha under Union Pacific Railroad, its headquarters, and its Store No. 1; they are one employer in one city. The Bailey Yard at North Platte is listed separately and profiled below.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, machinists, pipefitters, electricians, carmen, and sheet-metal workers in the shops, along with the maintenance crews in the headquarters and the railroad's other Omaha buildings. Locomotive servicing, car repair, and shop maintenance were the heaviest-exposure jobs.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 8 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Raytech, U.S. Gypsum, W.R. Grace, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1909 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Because the Owens-Illinois trust signature is present, Owens-Illinois Kaylo high-temperature pipe insulation, an amosite (brown asbestos) product, was used at this site during the 1948–1958 manufacturing window, followed by Owens Corning's Kaylo line on the shops' steam lines. Babcock & Wilcox boilers heated the shops, with pipe and block insulation and gaskets and packing on steam connections and access doors, and A.P. Green refractory lined the boiler furnaces. The Raytech signature reflects brake shoes and other friction products on locomotives and cars. U.S. Gypsum joint compound and W.R. Grace's Monokote spray fireproofing and Zonolite products point to the construction and renovation of the railroad's buildings. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Allied Chemical nitrogen plant — La Platte
Allied Chemical's Nitrogen Division ran a nitrogen-fertilizer plant at La Platte, in Sarpy County where the Platte River meets the Missouri, south of Omaha. The trusts list it under Allied Chemical & Dye, Allied Chemical, and the Nitrogen Division, with the town also spelled Laplatte and La Patte, and two listings filed under Plattsmouth, across the Platte; it is one facility. Allied Chemical's listings in Omaha and Bellevue are counted separately.
Workers exposed. Insulators, pipefitters, boilermakers, refractory workers, mechanics, instrument technicians, and operating personnel maintaining the reactor vessels, process piping, steam systems, and ancillary equipment.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 7 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1953 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Nitrogen-fertilizer production runs on reformer furnaces, waste-heat boilers, and high-pressure, high-temperature process piping. A.P. Green refractory lined the furnaces and process heaters, and Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers carried pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Because the Owens-Illinois trust signature is present, Owens-Illinois Kaylo high-temperature pipe insulation, an amosite (brown asbestos) product, was used at this site during the 1948–1958 manufacturing window, followed by Owens Corning's Kaylo line, and Fibreboard supplied more pipe insulation across the process and steam piping. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories, and crocidolite (blue asbestos) appeared in the acid-service gaskets and packing typical of chemical plants.
Union Pacific Railroad (Bailey Yard) — North Platte
Union Pacific's Bailey Yard at North Platte is the world's largest railroad classification yard, where trains on the railroad's main line across Nebraska are sorted, serviced, and repaired. The trusts list it under Union Pacific, Union Pacific Railroad, and Union Pacific Railroad Company, including a listing for the ice plant the railroad ran with Pacific Fruit Express; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, pipefitters, machinists, electricians, carmen, sheet-metal workers, and the broader Union Pacific skilled trades workforce. Locomotive servicing, car repair, and shop maintenance were the heaviest-exposure jobs.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 6 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, Owens Corning, Raytech, U.S. Gypsum, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1909 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Owens Corning supplied high-temperature pipe and block insulation for the yard's steam lines and shop heating systems, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos). Babcock & Wilcox boilers carried insulation and gaskets and packing, and A.P. Green refractory lined the shop heating plants. The Raytech signature reflects brake materials and friction products on locomotives and rail cars, and U.S. Gypsum joint compound went into shop and building construction and renovation. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Western Electric Omaha Works — Omaha
Western Electric, the Bell System's manufacturing company, opened its Omaha Works in the late 1950s to make telephone equipment. The trusts list it under Western Electric, Western Electric Company, and Western Electric – Omaha Works, and one trust files it under "Weco," the company's abbreviation; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, millwrights, mechanics, and electricians who kept the plant's boilers, steam lines, and production equipment running, along with the construction crews who built and expanded the works.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 6 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1957 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Because the Owens-Illinois trust signature is present, Owens-Illinois Kaylo high-temperature pipe insulation, an amosite (brown asbestos) product, was used at this site at the end of the 1948–1958 manufacturing window, with Owens Corning continuing the Kaylo line afterward. Fibreboard pipe and block insulation and Eagle-Picher One-Cote insulating cement covered more of the steam piping, and A.P. Green refractory lined the boiler furnaces. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Great Western Sugar Company — Bayard
Great Western Sugar processed the sugar beets of the North Platte valley in a string of Panhandle factories; besides Bayard, the trusts list its plants at Scottsbluff, Mitchell, Gering, and Minatare. The trusts list Bayard under Great Western Sugar and Western Sugar, the company's successor in the valley; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers, and mechanics maintaining the high-temperature evaporation, crystallization, and processing operations. The seasonal "campaign" cycle of the sugar industry concentrated maintenance and rebuild work into the months between campaigns.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Eagle-Picher, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1916 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green firebrick and refractory cement lined the kilns and boiler furnaces that drove sugar processing. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers carried pipe and block insulation and gaskets and packing, and Eagle-Picher One-Cote insulating cement covered the evaporators and the steam and process piping. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Swift & Company packing plant — Omaha
Swift & Company was one of the national meatpackers that built plants beside the Union Stockyards in South Omaha, for much of the twentieth century one of the country's largest livestock markets and meatpacking centers. South Omaha became part of Omaha in 1915. The trusts list the plant under Swift & Company and Swift and Company, including listings for its stores department, under both Omaha and South Omaha; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refrigeration mechanics, refractory workers, and mechanics maintaining the steam systems, refrigeration plants, rendering operations, and processing equipment.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Flintkote, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1902 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplied the steam that packing plants ran on, with pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing on access doors and steam connections. Because the Owens-Illinois trust signature is present, Owens-Illinois Kaylo high-temperature pipe insulation, an amosite (brown asbestos) product, was used at this site during the 1948–1958 manufacturing window, followed by Owens Corning's Kaylo line across the process and steam piping. Flintkote documentation points to roofing and flooring products in the plant's buildings. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
OPPD Jones Street Station — Omaha
The Jones Street Station was an Omaha generating plant of the Nebraska Power Company, the city's private electric utility, and passed to the Omaha Public Power District when the district bought Nebraska Power in 1946. The trusts list it under OPPD's Jones Street plant and station and under Nebraska Power Company and Nebraska Power & Light; it is one facility. OPPD's North Omaha Station and its other Omaha listings appear in the table above.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers, turbine maintenance staff, and operating personnel, along with the construction and overhaul crews. Construction-era and major-overhaul exposure was the heaviest, but routine maintenance generated significant ongoing exposure.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1935 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. The Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering signatures reflect the station's boilers, with their pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning pipe and block insulation, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the steam and turbine piping, and the Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Scottsbluff Power Plant (Consumers Public Power / NPPD) — Scottsbluff
Consumers Public Power District ran a steam generating plant at Scottsbluff that served the western Panhandle. Consumers was one of the public power districts that merged into today's Nebraska Public Power District. The trusts list the plant under Consumers Public Power Company, its Scottsbluff Power Plant, and Nebraska Public Power District; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers, and mechanics maintaining the boilers, turbines, and steam systems.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Turner & Newall, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1945 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. The Turner & Newall signature points to Limpet sprayed asbestos, an amosite (brown asbestos) insulation, and at the hottest steam service possibly to Limpet Blue, the crocidolite (blue asbestos) grade. The Babcock & Wilcox signature reflects the plant's boilers, with their pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing, and the ACandS and Armstrong signatures point to insulation contracting crews at the plant. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Nebraska entries by city
The trusts' lists hold Nebraska entries in 89 communities. Open the list below for the number of entries in each. Call us for any specific worksite — whether or not the city appears here.
Entries on the trusts' lists, city by city
| City | Entries on the trusts' lists |
|---|---|
| Omaha | 286 |
| Lincoln | 67 |
| Grand Island | 23 |
| Hastings | 21 |
| Fremont | 20 |
| Scottsbluff | 20 |
| Hallam | 17 |
| North Platte | 17 |
| Nebraska City | 14 |
| Bellevue | 13 |
| Lexington | 13 |
| Beatrice | 12 |
| Columbus | 11 |
| La Platte | 11 |
| Alliance | 7 |
| Crete | 6 |
| Bayard | 5 |
| Fort Calhoun | 5 |
| Kearney | 5 |
| Norfolk | 5 |
| Auburn | 4 |
| Boys Town | 4 |
| Brownville | 4 |
| David City | 4 |
| Lakeside | 4 |
| Louisville | 4 |
| Mitchell | 4 |
| Ogallala | 4 |
| Schuyler | 4 |
| Superior | 4 |
| Antioch | 3 |
| Blair | 3 |
| Falls City | 3 |
| Havelock | 3 |
| Imperial | 3 |
| Millard | 3 |
| Sutherland | 3 |
The trusts' lists also name 52 other Nebraska communities.
Search the asbestos trusts' Nebraska lists
Type any name the plant went by — the company, a later owner, or the city — to see every entry on the trusts' lists that matches, as the trusts wrote it, with each trust and the years it lists.
705 entries, as the trusts list them.
Court decisions: 4 asbestos cases from Nebraska courts
Worksites named in court opinions
Court decisions in our library name these Nebraska workplaces as places where people were exposed to asbestos.
Rite-Way Television
- Bailen v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. (2014): Radio and television repairman, 1962-1975
Union Pacific Railroad (Omaha headquarters and shops)
- Bailen v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. (2013): Electrician, late 1950's
Every worksite named in Nebraska court decisions, with all their decisions
Plants that made asbestos products
Companies' sworn answers in asbestos lawsuits, the asbestos industry's trade journal and company records in our library name this Nebraska plant as a place where asbestos products were made. Each plant's page says who ran it and when, what was made there, and which document says so. People who worked in these plants, their families, and people who lived nearby may have been exposed.
- OmahaZonolite Company, W. R. Grace & Co. · 1962–1973 · 2 products
Don't see your worksite?
Your worksite may be documented even if it doesn't appear on this page. If your loved one worked at a Nebraska facility not listed, call us. Johns-Manville requires no site list at all, and we can often document exposure through the products, contractors, and equipment at a site even when no trust lists it by name.
Smaller worksites, contract jobs, short-tenure employment, and exposures across multiple sites are all part of the case-building process. Federal facilities including Offutt Air Force Base, the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant at Grand Island, the Nebraska Ordnance Plant at Mead, the Naval Ammunition Depot at Hastings, and Lincoln Air Force Base all appear on the trusts' lists — federal civilian employees are covered by FECA, and military veterans may be eligible for VA service-connected disability, which a trust or civil recovery doesn't reduce.
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How a Nebraska case may work
David is a 76-year-old retired railroad worker from North Platte. From 1972 to 2004 he worked at the Union Pacific Bailey Yard — the world's largest railroad classification yard — primarily in the car repair and shop maintenance departments. His daily work involved cutting and fitting pipe insulation on shop steam lines, replacing brake materials on rail cars, removing and replacing gaskets and packing on rail equipment, and helping with refractory chip-out and rebuild work in the shop heating plants. From 1968 to 1972, before he came on with UP, David had worked summers and short-tenure jobs at Crete Mills helping with steam-system maintenance during shutdown cycles — additional documented exposure across his early career. In late 2025 David was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma of the biphasic mesothelioma subtype. Like many Nebraska railroad workers of his generation, he had no idea his decades of rail work could cause cancer decades later.
After David called our firm, we matched his career to the trusts that list his worksites: at least five at the Bailey Yard (A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, Owens Corning, Raytech, and U.S. Gypsum) and at least three at Crete Mills (Babcock & Wilcox, Owens Corning, and Owens-Illinois), then added his Johns-Manville Settlement Trust eligibility — his years at Crete Mills and his first decade on the railroad all fell before December 31, 1982, so the JM eligibility is automatic alongside the site-specific filings. Because David was a Union Pacific employee, FELA — the Federal Employers' Liability Act — provides a federal cause of action against the railroad employer, separate from the civil case against the product manufacturers and the trust filings. Which of these paths apply, and in what order, is decided case by case, and a trust payment can reduce what the remaining defendants in a lawsuit pay. Our representation also includes free asbestos health screening for David's wife and adult children, all of whom may have had take-home exposure to fibers carried into the household on David's work clothing across 32 years. The screening is a chest X-ray read by a B-reader, with a CT scan if needed; it looks for asbestos-related changes in the lungs and isn't a diagnosis or a reliable way to find mesothelioma early. Recoveries from cases like David's routinely fund what insurance does not cover — travel to academic cancer centers, lodging during extended treatment, out-of-pocket medication costs, and home help. The nearest NCI-designated cancer center for a Nebraska worker is the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where advanced treatments including HIPEC for peritoneal mesothelioma, lung-sparing surgery, and the latest immunotherapy combinations are available. When the written agreement and applicable law permit it, our firm can also advance the cost of travel and lodging when getting to the right treatment center matters. How legal recovery funds mesothelioma treatment access →.
For the full doctrinal treatment of Nebraska's express statutory asbestos-specific discovery rule, joint and several liability framework, premises liability standard, and damages framework, see the Nebraska mesothelioma law guide.
This example is general. Every case depends on the diagnosis, exposure history, dates, defendants, applicable law, and available evidence.
What happens when you call
A staff attorney answers — not a screener. The first call usually runs 20 to 30 minutes. We listen to the work history, identify which Nebraska worksites and trust channels apply to your loved one's exposure, and explain the timeline and case structure for your family's specific situation.
We never pressure anyone to retain us during the first call. If you decide to move forward, we come to you — phone, video, or home visit, whichever works best. No travel to our offices is required at any point in the case.
You do not need to come to the call with product names, exposure dates, or work records. We reconstruct the exposure history using our worksite database, the trust documentation for each manufacturer, employment and union records, and coworker interviews. The conversation starts with what you remember; we handle the documentation work from there.
A spouse, adult child, or other family member can call for the worker. Many of our first calls are from a daughter or wife researching on behalf of a parent or husband. That is standard, and the family member can make the call without the worker on the line.
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Why families choose our firm
- $400M+ recovered and 200,000+ verified exposure sites nationally; all 705 Nebraska entries on the asbestos trusts' lists; several clients with Nebraska job sites
- Worksite-specific knowledge — we operate from documented trust coverage rather than from generic intake scripts
- Trust claims, civil cases, FELA claims for railroad workers, and federal benefits coordinated case by case with the trial team
- Remote case handling — phone, video, or home visit at your kitchen table
- Free family asbestos health screening for spouses and children of every client
- No fee unless we recover compensation for your family
Frequently asked questions
Is my Nebraska worksite documented?
Probably yes. The asbestos trusts' approved-site lists hold 705 Nebraska entries in 89 communities — railroads, packinghouses, power plants, sugar factories, chemical plants, military installations, and a wide range of smaller industrial and commercial operations across the state. You can search every entry on this page. Even if a specific facility isn't listed, we can often document exposure there through the products and contractors involved. Call us with your loved one's work history and we can confirm coverage during the first conversation.
What does "trust coverage" mean for my case?
When an asbestos manufacturer files for bankruptcy, it typically sets up a settlement trust to pay future asbestos victims. Each trust maintains documentation of where its products were used. When we say a site is "recognized by 5 trusts," we mean five different asbestos trusts have records establishing that their products were used at that location — meaning a worker exposed there is positioned to file claims against all five trusts. Trust claims operate as paper filings, separately from any civil lawsuit, and recoveries from one trust do not reduce or offset recoveries from another.
Does my loved one qualify for the Johns-Manville trust?
Probably yes, if your loved one had asbestos exposure before 1983 and developed an asbestos-related disease. Johns-Manville does not require proof that its products were at a specific worksite, and for mesothelioma even one day of exposure can qualify. How Johns-Manville eligibility works.
Do I need to know which asbestos products my loved one handled?
No. Most clients come to us knowing they worked at the railroad, the sugar plant, the packing house, the utility, or the cement plant — and that's enough. We reconstruct the product history using the trusts' site lists, the trust documentation for each manufacturer, employment and union records, and interviews with former coworkers. The product identification work is our job, not yours.
What if my loved one worked at multiple Nebraska sites?
Multiple sites usually means multiplied trust coverage. A worker who spent 20 years at the Bailey Yard and 12 years at Crete Mills will trigger the trust filings documented at both sites, plus the universal Johns-Manville coverage. Career-spanning exposure histories are routine in our Nebraska practice.
What if my loved one's worksite has closed or been demolished?
Site closure or demolition has no effect on trust eligibility. The Omaha Stockyards closed in 1999, and the Fort Calhoun nuclear station shut down in 2016. Workers from facilities like these remain fully eligible for trust filings and, where applicable, civil claims and federal benefits. The trusts' lists document historical operations regardless of current site status.
Can we file a claim if my loved one already passed away?
Yes. Trust claims and wrongful death cases on behalf of deceased workers are routine in our Nebraska practice. The Nebraska wrongful death filing deadline is two years from the date of death, which is why calling us soon after a death matters. Documents, coworker memories, and exposure evidence often need to be assembled while they are still reachable. We handle the entire process for the family.
What about Union Pacific workers and FELA?
Union Pacific railroad workers are covered by the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) in addition to trust filings and any applicable civil claims. FELA provides a direct federal cause of action against the railroad employer for occupational disease, including mesothelioma and other asbestos-related disease. FELA claims have a three-year deadline. UP railroaders — at the Bailey Yard, the Omaha shops, and other Nebraska UP facilities — are among the most comprehensively covered worker populations in the state.
What about federal employees and military veterans at Offutt Air Force Base?
Federal civilian employees at Offutt and other federal installations are covered by the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) for occupational disease. Workers at contractor-run plants such as the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant were contractor employees, covered by Nebraska workers' compensation. Military veterans may be eligible for VA service-connected disability — available with proof of in-service asbestos exposure and a doctor's opinion linking it to service. A civil or trust recovery doesn't reduce VA disability, but FECA must be repaid from a recovery against the companies that made the products, and VA and FECA benefits for the same disease generally require an election.
Talk with a Nebraska asbestos lawyer
Whether your family is dealing with a new diagnosis, a very sick loved one, or a death from mesothelioma, we are ready to help. Your loved one's worksite may already be on the trusts' lists — or we can help document it if it isn't.
You do not need to know the product names. You do not need to have all the records. You do not need to travel to our office. A spouse or adult child can call for the family.
Related resources
This page is provided for general informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. Every asbestos case turns on its own facts, exposure history, diagnosis, deadlines, available evidence, and applicable law. Reviewing this page does not create an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, call 833-4-ASBESTOS for a free case review.